On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:22 -0500, Matt Considine wrote: > Hi, > I've checked the archives and cannot find commentary on this. Hoping I > didn't overlook something, here goes ... > > Running FC3 and Gnome, I am trying to get a third harddisk recognized. > This one had a partition (11G) for the Win99 OS and the remaining > partition was divided up into virtual drives. Total size is 60G if I > recall. > > The hardware brower recognizes this as > > Device Start End Size(MB) Type > /dev/hdd > /hdd1 1 1460 11453 fat32 > 1 1460 11453 Free space > /hdd2 1461 7296 45779 No filesystem > 7297 7298 10 Free space > > These are associated with subdirectories, respectively, > /mnt/boot > /mnt/root > > I can see the files on "boot" without a problem. But I cannot > see the files on "root". > > Can someone either tell me how or point me to the instructions to get > these files recognized? When I type (as root) > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdd2 /mnt/root > > I get the following message : > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd2, > or too many mounted file systems > > Any help would be appreciated, as well as everyone's patience if I > missed something simple. ----- I guess I don't understand exactly what you are saying. I can see that there is a partition /dev/hdd2 but I don't understand your comment about the rest of the the partition being divided into virtual drives. Then you say that you called these things /mnt/boot and /mnt/root but /dev/hdd1 is fat32 so that hardly qualifies as a suitable partition for a linux boot and /dev/hdd2 - at least on appearance doesn't have a suitable filesystem at all. The free space leftovers seem to indicate some type of funky partitioning tool was used. I am gathering that if you did try to install a filesystem (sometimes called 'formatting' or 'initializing') that it didn't succeed. If there is no valuable data on the /dev/hdd2, you could probably just from command line... mkfs -t [ext3|ext2|vfat] /dev/hdd2 I always had problems creating vfat partitions larger than 32mb. Perhaps that is just me. if you feel that you had indeed created a filesystem on /dev/hdd2 like in Windows or something else and indeed have valuable data on that drive, then re-examine by booting Windows or the tool you used to create it and see if it's still there. Craig
